Subject: Economy and Development

US President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East last week marked a substantive shift in US policy towards Syria. ...

Under Bashar al-Assad, more than a decade of heavily centralized mismanagement, cronyism and conflict left Syria’s economy essentially in ruins. ...

August 2023As Syria’s currency plummets to unprecedented lows, the country is plunging into an ever-deeper economic depression. Despite regime hopes ...

Syrian regime paralyzed amidst cascading financial crisesRegime-controlled areas of Syria are buckling under an unprecedented socio-economic and financial crisis, as ...

The Syrian regime announced its draft budget for 2023, which reiterated the regime’s intention to press on with aggressive austerity ...

A wrenching combination of cratering currency and runaway inflation is setting the stage for what will be a miserable winter ...

Between now and the end of the year, the Syrian regime plans to drastically cut what remains of Syria’s subsidy ...

Syria’s wheat harvest season is underway, with grim projections of severe shortfalls resulting from drought, regime mismanagement and surging prices ...

The Assad regime’s response to the devastating economic crisis in Syria, now exacerbated even further by the ramifications of Russia’s ...

The effects of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are already reverberating through the Syrian economy, exposing ordinary Syrians to some of ...